Written questions
698 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pets: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a centralised database of licenced (a) breeders and (b) sellers of (i) dogs and (ii) other pets.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Large Goods Vehicles: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to help improve the welfare of HGV drivers through improved lorry parking facilities.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent (a) e-bike, (b) e-scooter and (c) other micro-mobility vehicle trials in England.
22 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tree Preservation Orders: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many fines have been issued for violating tree preservation orders in each year since 2010.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate her Department has made of the carbon footprint of the private jets registered in the UK.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Active Travel: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to update the cycling and walking investment strategy.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the water industry provides funding for catchment-based solutions for natural flood management.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Supply: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on catchment-based water systems planning.
18 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Unadopted Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of households that are located on estate roads that have not been adopted by their local authority as of 17 October 2024.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Buses: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of bus fires.
18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Cancer: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to improve awareness of the hereditary risk of pancreatic cancer.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Working Conditions: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2024 to Question 728 on Working Conditions: Temperature, when her Department plans to bring forward proposals for consultation on workplace temperatures.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rain
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of rain conditions on (a) food supplies and (b) the economy in each year since 2010.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Droughts
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the impact of drought conditions on (a) the economy and (b) food supplies in each year since 2010.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Public Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the relative merits of fixed fleet caps against dynamic fleet caps for micro mobility schemes in the UK.
18 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Products: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory labelling on (a) furniture and (b) other products that have been tested on animals.
17 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to publish an integrated national transport strategy.
17 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Young Futures Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will outline a planned timeline for the rollout of Young Futures hubs.
17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve prostate cancer (a) screening and (b) awareness in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency.
14 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tree Planting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on its commitment to launch a four-country tree planting task force.
11 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of NHS prescription fines that have been issued to people on (a) contribution-based Employment Support Allowance and (b) Savings Credit in each o
11 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Land: Burial
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of land for burials.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department has on the number of miles of (a) copper wire and (b) fibre in the internet network in (i) Central Bedfordshire and (ii) the East of England; and how man
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Floods: Home Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take legislative steps to ensure all domestic insurers offer Build Back Better policies.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Floods: Home Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that all domestic insurers signed up to the Build Back Better flood insurance scheme offer those provisions across all their products.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tree Planting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to use the Government's tree planting programme to help tackle (a) flooding and (b) upper catchment management of rivers.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Tree Planting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help increase tree planting along riverbanks.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Larger Eight-toothed European Spruce Bark Beetles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in European countries on mitigating the spread of the Ips typographus tree pest.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department had made of the potential merits of producing an animal protection strategy.
11 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to set a target date for the long-term replacement of animal experiments in med
Source: official written-questions record.